Telescope Display and Full Moon Star Party
The IUP Cejka Planetarium will host a chance to view and learn about our telescopes, and if it is a clear night, we’ll also observe the Moon and sky.
Undergraduate Programs
Explore your options with programs that offer hands-on learning opportunities and a wide scope of career-building experiences.
Applied Anthropology, Anthropology, BA
Geography and Geographic Information Science, BA
Earth and Space Science Education
(Geology, BS with Secondary Science Education Teaching Certificate)
Anthropology Honors Program, BA
Regional Planning Honors Program, BS
Minors
Graduate Programs
Expand your professional options with a graduate program that takes you directly into the material you’ll need to advance your career.
Undergraduate Certificates
Cultural Competencies Certificate
Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Science and Applications Certificate
Geospatial Intelligence Analysis Certificate
Graduate Certificates
GIS and Geospatial Techniques Certificate
Geospatial Intelligence Analysis Certificate
Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) Science and Applications Certificate
Planetarium
The new Cejka Planetarium in Kopchick Hall is a digital planetarium 35 feet in diameter. It is used extensively for educational outreach as well as in undergraduate instruction, both for introductory astronomy courses and in classes for Earth and Space Science teaching majors.
Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Statement on Race and Diversity
The Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences Department is committed to combating racism through fostering inclusive and welcoming spaces for diverse students, and fostering student learning outcomes that expand the understanding of race: particularly, that race is not a biological reality, but that race and racism are cultural and social constructs that intersect with social class and other forms of social positionality to produce harm for people of color in our society and globally.
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News
Taylor Publishes on Nature of Faunal Turnover, Change in Ocean Chemistry Associated with Latest Cambrian Mass Extinction
Professor Emeritus John Taylor and colleagues published a new study based on faunal collections from a 50-meter interval of the Jones Ridge Limestone in easternmost Alaska. The study provided new, detailed faunal range data across the base of the North American Ibexian Series and geochemical data that confirm an associated shift in ocean chemistry.
- 25 March 2025
Professor Emeritus Taylor Publishes New Insights Into Fossil Record from Northern Laurentia
Professor Emeritus John Taylor published a new study on the taxonomy and stratigraphic distribution of Lotagnostus (Agnostida: Agnostidae) and associated trilobites and conodonts with IUP alumni James D. Loch ’83 and John E. Repetski ’69.
- 21 March 2025
Flores Honored as National Hispanic Institute’s College Student of the Year
The National Hispanic Institute has recognized IUP student Marisol Gonzalez Flores as one of its College Students of the Year 2024.
- 20 March 2025
Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
- Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences
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Kopchick Hall, Room 114
421 North Walk
Indiana, PA 15705 - Phone: 724-357-2440
Office Hours
Monday through Friday
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
1:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.